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WINSLOW, NAVAJO COUNTY, FRIDAY, VOLUME 34 ARIZONA. MAY 29, 1925 NUMBER 27

TOURISTS ALMOST jV >' WILLIAMS WILL BIDS FOR GAS FREEZE TO DEATH il HAVE AIR SHOW CIRCUS ON CANYON ROAD ON JUNE TENTH FLYING At least one party of tourists who 11 The Chamber of Commerce of TO SUM visited Arizona this spring will re- i ! Williams is sponsoring an air show IN PLANT for the dedication of Webber field CONNECTION member to the last day of their ¦ for Wednesday, June 10, to which lives their experience while here. Winslow folk are cordially invited. People start on auto trips to find Williams people were generous in 0F532,357 interesting and unusual experi- their attendance at the Winslow show May 16 WITH on and 17. and it is RACES ences, and to enjoy the thrills that hoped that as many as can from come from meeting unusual circum- this city will attend the Williams stances and overcoming dangers exhibition. and hardships of the trails, and to !; Williams has prepared an inter- ACCEPTED esting program of aerial in AI ARE stunts HOLBROOK party of easterners, consisting of a which civilian and army planes will three elderly men, a participate, many of who Contracts to the amount of $32,- the flyers Nine entrants posted boy of 14 and a girl of 10, came were in Winslow two weeks ago forfeits 357 were let by the City council at this week to appear- an adventure reminiscent of what stating while here that they would insure their a session Wednesday afternoon for take part in the dedication of Web- ance on the Highland Park race the pioneers of sixty years ago had ber the greater part of the equipment field. The officers from Rock- track at Holbrook Sunday after- ito undergo. well Field and Fort Bliss'xmd pos- to be installed at the new gas noon to take part in j The adventure was not exactly sibly other military planes will be the fifty-mile plant, for which $50,000 in bonds j jwhat easterners would expect in in Williams on that date. automobile race. They are Jack was voted in March. The call for ' Arizona. Instead of being lost on I The program includes a race Cousins and Ralph M. Miller, both a burning desert, far from water, around Bill mountain bids, issued several weeks ago, Williams by of Winslow, the former with a being overcome with the heat, and army planes, battle formation fly- Laurel special closed Tuesday night, at which the rest of the traditional Arizona and the latter with ing, bomb dropping contests by the ® a Studebaker special; Tony time the council met and discussed deprivations, these people almost navy Yurie, De Havilands, nonstop race to Gallup, Hudson special; A. C. all bids. A recess was taken, how- sufered death by freezing, being- El Tovar hotel Smy- j on the rim of the ers, Gallup, Cadillac special; Jess ever, until the following afternoon lost in the dense pine forest of , wing walking exhi- Gaddis. Flagstaff, Coconino county a rain and Studebaker spe- before any was I j during bition and a parachute drop by Ted cial; T. V. Long, definite action had. snow storm which bound their two Flagstaff. Essex j O. Penney, who made the beautiful special; C. W. Jerome, The bids called for a 50,000-cubic | j automobiles on the Grand Canyon parachute jump Byerly, Ford in Winslow, as a special; T. Caminetti, Phoenix, foot highway during the blizzard of program foot holder, one 10,000-cubic climax to the on the local Dodge special, and J. Flanigan, April 23, E. gas generator with washer, scrub- | 24 and 25. field. Holbrook, Studebaker special. j The account of their adventure ber and purifier; one electric The condition Highland driv-I| and rescue was given to The Mail of the Aviators Park track and the proven skill of en booster, one steam turbine driv- 1 Jack O’Brien, Santa Fe train- | Return From by all the entrants event en exhauster and blower, two plun- man, who at time was enjoying in the fore- the Gallup to Show Here one of the ger pumps, a quantity of fittings a week’s vacation on his ranch at ; tel], most exciting and and wrought iron pipe, and the lay- | thrilling races ever seen in this Spring valley and visiting with a ! Aviators Tex Rankin and C. M. ; state. ing of foundations for the machin- brother, Mike O’Brien, who owns A , Mayse returned Tuesday from Gal- | Four other racing events are ery. ranch in same valley. lup, where they had been showing on the ¦ | the program. There will be a five- Contract for gas holder was let, Early the afternoon of April for several in days. Mayse was ac-. mile race for stock Fords; a after considerable discussion, for party Grand Canyon via While Us contpanied by five- 23 the left With Ted O. j Penney, para- i mile race for six-cylinder stock $14,300 to Stacy Brothers Gas com- the Maine highway. The eight peo- ThQ'to chute jumper and wing walker, | j cars; pany, of Cincinnati, whose repre- a five-mile race for four-cyl- ple were traveling together in two while W. Quinn, who appeared here inder stock cars, and an sentative at the meeting wks J. J. and Packard. during Australian cars, a Paige a Let us all join in honoring them. In a few short years the celebration, has gone to i pursuit race for racing Taylor. Several bids were received Among members of the party were ; cars only. Chicago. The aviators have been j An Australian pursuit race con- on this piece of equipment, which federal of North Dakota, and a judge a'| making flights carrying pas-; sists of all the entrants, generally was the largest single item includ- from in Winslow this week. I marshal Wis-.J at most, those yet with us willhave gone to join the ranks sengers four, being spaced equidistant ed in the plans for the plant. All a novelist and Tomorrow both machines will go eonsin, magazine around the track. At the crack of other figures were much higher -writer from New York, and a writer to Holbrook, where exhibition than that of Stacy Brothers, with the starter’s pistol they start on from Los Angeles. of the invisible hosts which preceded them, so we have flights have been contracted for in i their grind, each car the the exception of one by the Chicago cold and but | pursuing The day was windy, connection with the auto races Sun- j one immediately ahead. As a car is Bridge and Iron Works, which was ' there but that the cars ! j was no idea day afternoon. From Holbrook the passed it retires from the race, hnd S6OO lower than the original pro- could through to Maine with- airmen will Williams get only a little time in which to show to the remaining few three, go to to | the car passing keeps going until posal of Stacy Brothers. However, out However, when about take difficulty. T>art in the dedication of Web- it passes on track, or until Mr. Taylor, after making some ad- canyon, ! j all the an hour out from the rain ber air field on June 10. j it is passed, when it must retire. justments in the order, brought his and snow began to fall. Instead of ; appreciation of their wonderful service the nation. our to The race may be five miles or fifty. price within S4OO of the Chicago turning back, the drivers attempted j company’s figure, and the council There is but one prize, the winner to get through to the National Old [local being the one who decided to accept it, since the YOUNG LADYI; passes all the Stacy Trails highway. When still about j cars on holder is built with twice the num- ! I ,other the track. | twenty miles from Maine, the cars j r Besides the ber of stays and guying devices, ! MEMBER OF ! racing events, a fly- • stuck in the mud, and the rapidly j LARGE; j ing circjus wiL] be held making it a more practical tank for obliterated all F!ie Winslow Mail with Pilots falling snow soon |j Charles Mayse and Tex Rankin, withstanding the prevailing winds of the road. They GRADUATING traces could i CLASS; both well-known in Winslow, tak- of Winslow. j neither go forward nor back. The j ! ing part, and Ted O. Penney, who The Crane company, which was road maps had no I they showed j : Miss Gladys Helen Vorce, daugh-1 travels with Mayse, putting on a represented by C. F. Cummings, of signs of habitation between Maine ! I || : ter of Mrs .M. M .Vorce of Winslow, ! j wing-walking stunt, to be followed Phoenix, received the contract for and Grand Canyon. There was no will graduate with honors — iby a drop. This the boiler at $2,738, pipe at $2,344 I on; parachute addi- food in the party other than a few j jWednesday, June 3, at Colorado I tion to the auto races at Holbrook and fittings at $844. Several other cookies and one or two cans of i State Teachers College, Greeley, received all items be- Navajo jwill constitute a big show in it- bids were on ; fruit. Indian Dances Colo., of class sides the I TWO SENTENCED TO I FAST GAME FOR a piember the largest |; self, and with the races and other accepted ones. They decided to camp in their I in the of that institution. ; As the set, At Depot Tomorrow history ; events scheduled, an entertainment to generator includ- cars until the storm blew over, and, ! The class is made up of 318, nearly ing the generator, scrubbers, wash- I PENITENTIARY FOR TOMORROW P. M. ; will be provided that people will ; in order to keep warm, as the mpr- 100 more the number com- ] wait long er box purifier, the bid of E. A. Mike Kirk and a band of abou* than | a while to see duplicated. and ! cury had fallen to below zero, they prising the class of June a year Winslow Meteors was accepted for the MURDER TUESDAY ON FIELD I The and the McGilvary j kept the motors running. About fifty Navajo Indians will be on No. LOCAL ago, and represents seventy-seven Kingman Miners ball amount of $10,500. i | teams will | midnight their fuel ran out. They 9 tomorrow on their way to Los / ! cities and towns in Colorado and play regular The contract for the laying of a a league game at I were not supplied with blankets or In Superior court at Holbrook Tomorrow afternoon on Barrigen fourteen states outside of Cen- Sunday morning foundation for the new machinery Angeles, where they will give a the Holbrook . ; covering of any kind, and none of this week two were sentenced to Field, Winslow, the Meteors and tennial state. the races, air show and was awarded to Robert Fenton, series of dances for the entertain- Besides I the party wore heavy clothing. ! serve terms in the state peniten- Kingman ball teams will cross bats i In the class of which Miss Vorce game, while for pumps, blowers ball diversion will be pro- that the Ij Their suffering soon became in-; tiary, the first, Tony Dillard, negro, ment of the thousands of Shriners in what will be the first of a series is a member there are eight who vided by the Roosevelt and remainder of the machinery I Indian i jtense, and to adtj to their misery, ‘ being sentenced for one to ten who will be in attendance at the of two holiday games. The second will receive the degree of master school band, of Fort , one was withheld upon recommendation ! | the three men. each well above 60 years for manslaughter for the kill- will be played at Holbrook Sunday j of arts, fifty-four will receive the organizations of McGilvary, who wished convention there next week. jof the finest musical Mr. to'; years of age .made heroic efforts to ing of Juan Montoya, and Ramon morning, and will be called at bachelor of arts degree, and 256 j in the spedial suggestions as to the Mr. Kirk has notified Charles L. I I state. make j extricate the cars from the mud, Hermosea was given ten years to 10:30, instead of 1:30 a. m., as last will life certificate is thousands machinery be in- Ii Murphy, secretary of the Winslow receive the in j j f Holbrook expecting best adapted to 1 and in working with the few tools life for second-degree murder for week’s Mail reported. The Meteors I teaching. stalled with that which his contract Commercial club, that his dancers ,of people to visit there Sunday, at hand, and attempting to push the killing Pedro Silva. stage might flash best in the dark of the Miss Vorce is one of the popular program given for. I j will one of their dances at I i ; and from the to be called cars, what few clothes they had j! The jury disagreed in the of early morning hour, but it students on the campus at Greeley, the case the Harvey House station during might j jit would seem that no one will he Work on foundations will were soon torn to shreds, leaving Abel Gonzales, charged with attack not be entirely fair to their oppo- She graduated from the Brookfield j few days, while the thirty minutes the train stops ; disapppinetd with the entertain- start within a the them in worse condition than be- j I upon a young girl. The case will nents. Mo., high school, and immediately ! of machinery is ex- here for breakfast. j ; ment afforded. first shipment fore. j be The Meteors have been strength- her arrival at State Teachers four weeks. As soon retried. ;on pected within None of the members of the party Roy Reidhead was convicted on ened during the last ten days by ! college she entered into the activi-. as the machinery is in place, con- were accustomed to situations such a similar charge. Sentence has not the addition of a couple of fast ties and made friends it quickly FIFTYPLANES tract for the building to house as confronted them, and by daylight yet been pronounced. CONFERENCE OF players, and have been in daily among her classmates. of will be let. The heaviest piece next morning were in what they o practice to get in trim Miss was a student in the will be the holder,, themselves Vorce TO BE IN TOUR, equipment ! thought a hopeless position. AT for the two games. Teachers college, which will require two cars for j Meeting Hangs ENGINEERS The blizzard continued all that Jerome r O at Flagstaff, for one year, ana will consist of several A, shipping and | night and most of the next day, and taught school at Manila. Ariz., for CLAIMS S. E. of I Effigy County Attorney L. A. TOMORROW sections, some them weighing; daylight brought little relief, for one year, before going to Greeley. 1,500 Winslow Switchboard pounds. the overcast clouds prevented the Upward of fifty airplanes prob- Among representatives from the weather from moderating. County Attorney E. Lyman was Engineer W. Rhyan, To Be Soon ably will be entered in America’s different companies who entered C. chairman Enlarged ! Legion Campaign By evening, after having been hanged in effigy at a demonstra- of the local board of adjustment Fund ; first intercity airplane tour this bids were included J. M. Berkeley, stuck for more than twenty-four tion held on the streets of Cotton- of the Brotherhood , i ‘ summer if the cities having landing of Baker Iron Works. Los An- of Locomotive A new section for the Heads Visit in Winslow the. hours, they resigned themselves to wood Tuesday evening by a group Engineers, will attend a confer- I local fields co-operate as expected in the geles; Downey E. O. containing space j J. B. and their fate. of citizens who are demanding the of officials at switchboard, for plans that are being prepared, ac- the Pratt-Gilbert com- ence brotherhood 135 additional J Whitaker, of Huddled in one car for what little 1i extradition of Clarence Neely, who Los Angeles tomorrow and Monday. 1 numbers, was re- Robert E. Tally, of Jerome, state] cording to the Society of Automo- pany. Phoenix, and E. Oakes, of ceived last at the telephone of the American Legion •i ! cheer and bodily warmth could be was arrested in Utah and charged L. G. Griffing, grand chief en- week chairman ; tive Engineers. This number is the M. J. O’Fallon Supply com- exchange, and will be installed committee, and derived from companionship, the with passing bad checks hi the gineer, of Cleveland, and M. E. as endowment fund 1 the average of estimates made by pany, Albuquerque. A number of i j soon as the equipment department Evans Stallcup, state commander of | second freezing night was spent, Verde valley. jMontgomery, assistant, in charge ;j the aviators themselves, who will companies, including the system . the Legion, | other j Their condition had become piti- It is stated that the board of su- j of western terrtiory, will be in at- of the Mountain States at were visitors in Wins- ; enter machines and who have re- Chicago Bridge and Iron Works, | Phoenix can send a man to do the j low Tuesday, and while here dis- jable, the women becoming seriously pervisors refused the petition of : tendance, and will confer with rep- I ! i jsponded with enthusiasm to the Chicago, and the Western Gas Con- ¦ : work. However, to W. C. cussed with the local the j ill with exposure; the men exhaust- valley citizens to have Neely re- | of lodges con- according j committee proposal to organize the event company, Fort Wayne, I resentatives western Callaway, manager the I 1 struction from their strenuous exertions turned on the recommendation of cerning important legislation and } of local ex- details for raising Winslow’s quota j which was indorsed recently by Indiana, were represented by bids led I ! change, it may be two months be- of the fund, which is i ! and cold, and the two children j the county attorney. to up by ; $250. | the board of governors of the but not with personal representa- other subjects be taken ! fore will be In the opens on 8, crying and fainting with hunger. o the order during the coming year. this possible. The campaign June j National Aeronautic association at ,! meantime, many people await- | while it is reported that many tiveg. About 3 o’clock in the morning The G. I. A. to the B. of L. E., of are and j a meeting in St. Joseph, Mo. Wil- o Legion Will March ing telephones. The board has communities of the state have of the third day, when all had to Los Angeles, will prepare and serve new I ai-1 liam D. Mayo, of Detroit, in a con- averaged about ten new telephones ready oversubscribed their quotas. | given up hope of rescue, one of the a banquet to visiting i j i ference with Carl B. Fritsche, Springerville Organizes Cemetery at 10 o’Clock monster the a month until the capacity point the Winslow committee decided , women, partly to relieve the situa- ? | delegates. i i j chairmaii of the contest committee Chamber of Commerce ' tion by one more effort, and be- |of the present equipment was jthat it would be better to wait until ! j of the association, which will pre- reached recently, so many are on official date before doing any j cause, if they were to be rescued Frank Perkins post of j | the | pare the rules for the contest. the Anwi- T. C. GARRETT WRITES FROM ! the waiting list. soliciting. At a bieeting held in the banking at all, it would have to be within can Legion will assemble at its j { voiced the evident sentiment of the Bank, in CONVENTION AT CLEVELAND With the installation of the new On the evening of June 8 a dance j interests when he said: rooms of the Round Valley the next few hours, started on airplane f ball before 10 o’clock tomorrow j equipment an girl will be for the of the will be j Springerville. Thursday night an what she believed would be a morning, and the hour : additional benefit fund ! “Let us make it the best commer- at of 10 will I jemployed. given at the Green Mill. The hall ‘ entirely new organization of the twenty-two mile walk through the march to the cemetery, where the; T. C. Garrett, of Winslow, local j cial meet in history.’’ \ o and music been donated, and j chamber of commerce was per- three-foot snow, over an invisible rituals delegate the B. of R. T. conven- have The Society of Automotive En- customary of respect for to a large the fund is expected j fected. The new organization will road, to the little settlement of their departed comrades will ! tion which began its sessions in j gineers, which has been encourag- be: Winslow Store Closes; to be from this event. get busy at once in an effort to Maine. legionnaire urged Cleveland, Ohio, May raised i ing the promotion of the tour, has held. Every is to 12, writes to Bought by Dagg o better advertise not only the scenic After trudging and struggling for take part in the march. ! brotherhood officials that the busi- Stock j received more than fifty responses Mountains, wonders of the White two hours she saw a light*in a dis- o | ness of the session is being expe- ‘ Prescott Plans Band i from commercial aviation com- but also the rich, productive soil of tant farm house, and fought her | dited in'"every way and that much Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Perdue closed -1 panies and individual owner-pilots, Round valley, it was announced at way to it. She reached the door i\uto Clubs Co-operate i has been accomplished. He states the doors of the Winslow Grocery who have offered many interesting the close of the meeting. just as her last strength leav- ¦that a number of enjoyable social | store on Kinsley avenue the first To Give Concerts and valuable suggestions for the who To Prevent Car Thefts Farmers are wr anted—men ing her, and fell fainting on the I functions have been interspersed of the week. conduct of the event. will develop the productive acres threshold of the kitchen of the Mike j into the convention program by the Most of the remaining stock was At a recent meeting of the Yava- o of the valley and surrounding coun- O’Brien ranch house. The Automobile Club of Arizona |! ladies of the auxiliary. I taken over by the Dagg Mercantile pai County Chamber of Commerce Bath House at Clear try, and it is to the end of inducing She was given attention and has joined with the Automobile! o i company. steps were taken toward organizing farmers from other states to go taken care of by Mrs. O’Brien, while Club of Southern California in an ! j o a concert band for Prescott. Creek to Be Rebuilt there and settle that the chamber Mike and Jack, who had been effort to prevent automobile theft i To Propose Joint Roll Star Grocery Installs One midweek concert each week will make a special effort. snowed in at- his brother's home, and put machinery in motion to re- j Blue and Gray is desired, according to the mer- The annua! rebuilding of the Officers elected at the meeting took a four-horse team to the spot cover stolen cars and punish the Call of White Porcelain Scale chants who will ultimately finance bath house at the Clear creek swim- were G. Becker, president; W. W. where the two cars were stalled. thieves. This service has resulted j the proposed band. This concert ming pool and playground will take Cadwell, vice president; G. B. By daylight, after having spent in the recovery of seven automo- i A resolution proposing that the A new white sanitary scale was they claim, should be held during place this week. Each spring the Corn, secretary and treasurer; more than thirty-six hours exposed biles out of eleven stolen in this Grand Army of the Republic and installed at the Star Grocery this the' week, since many visitors as place has to be reconstructed, and Melvin Brown, membership secre- ¦ to the blizzard, the party was safe state between May 18 and May 22. | the United Confederate Veterans I week by W. A. Bostrom, of Phoenix. well as residents take Sundays for each fall it is demolished to pro- tary. A board of five directors : in the home of the O'Briens. Prevention and drastic punish- | : answer the final roll call together The new piece of equipment is trips into the mountains and other vide fuel for later-in-the-season was named, comprising Connor They remained with Mr. and Mrs. ment for arrested automobile next year in Washington will be said to be the most sensitive scale excursions. picnickers. A fund of $l5O is being Trammell. W. H. Canterbury, J. W. , O’Brien for four days before their thieves will do much to reduce the offered during the annual reunion built. It is made of white porce- The city manager has promised subscribed to put the place in con- Becker, W. W. Cadwell and W. C. condition permitted them to con- number of thefts, officials of the of Confederate veterans to be held lain and is a beautful fixture as the support and co-operation of the ! dition for summer use. Spring- Richardson. tinue on their way. organizations declare. at Dallas, Texas, soon. | well as a useful one. city in financing the organization. boards also will be built this year.